Richard L. Hanna

Richard Louis Hanna (25 January 1951-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NY 24) from 3 January 2011 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Mark Arcuri and preceding Dan Maffei) and from NY 22 from 3 January 2013 to 3 January 2017 (succeeding Maurice Hinchey and preceding Claudia Tenney).

Biography
Richard L. Hanna was born in Utica, New York and was raised in Marcy, and he ran his own construction business before entering politics as a liberal Republican. He served in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, and, in 2016, he became one of the first Republicans to announce that he would vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, calling Donald Trump a national embarrassment. He retired in 2016 due to family responsibilities, and he criticized his party's far-right social views.